Craig Burley, Shaka Hislop and Steve Nicol all agree that PSG deserved the penalty that lead to Manchester United scoring the winner in the Champions League.

Manchester United and FC Porto advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Wednesday with dramatic, VAR-inspired winning penalties. How did the video assistant referee system do?

1. Kimpembe's handball in PSG's 3-1 loss to Man United

Diogo Dalot's shot struck PSG defender Presnel Kimpembe, who had jumped and turned his back make himself bigger. Referee Damir Skomina knew the ball had come off Kimpembe and so pointed for the corner, but VAR instructed the official to take a second look...

Fernandinho is a classic box-to-box player but has adapted to life under Pep Guardiola at Man City. He's now more of a deep-lying creator.

Football has never been so obsessed with individual brilliance and star power given the quality on show, but not everyone can be the hero. There remains a place for the humble, workmanlike and dependable holding midfielder. Here are five who have been in particularly good form this season.

Fernandinho, Manchester City

City's title challenge seemed to falter during the Christmas period when they suffered back-to-back defeats to Crystal Palace and Leicester. Notably, it was also the first two...

ROME -- The mischievous cats of Trigoria are playing in the afternoon sun, rolling around on their backs and toying with a piece of string dangling from a parasol. It's a balmy day at Roma's training ground, closer to summer than winter in temperature. The ashtrays on the patio are graveyards of cigarette stubs and plastic cups, the crema from strong coffee staining the sides.

Kicking either habit couldn't have been easy this season. Roma are in the knockout stages of the Champions League again....

The transfer window for Europe's biggest clubs is open again. Transfer Talk has been scouring the world's media and setting our correspondents loose to see who could be heading to/out of your club this month.

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Transfers

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FC Exclusives

In case you've been living in a bunker for the past year, Man United are looking for a new defender. Things have improved under new boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but United are still keen to land a top defensive target in January and...

AS Roma rebounded after last weekend's defeat to Juventus with a convincing 3-1 win over in-form Sassuolo.

Roma coach Eusebio Di Francesco likes to remind journalists of the times they looked up from their notepads and laptops in unison and said to one another: "This guy is crazy."

The first such incident was when they got wind of him changing formation and going to a back three before the second leg of Roma's Champions League quarterfinal against Barcelona last season. What followed was one of the sporting moments of 2018: the comeback known as the "Romantada," which had fans dancing in the streets...